bruised-eye grandmother

My grandmother fell off the bed in the middle of the night. I was awoken up with a loud ‘thud!’ at 4am. Still closing my eyes, I just reached out my hands to ‘feel’ if she was still by my side and if I had imagined the loud sound but she wasn’t there!

Sat up on my bed and saw her sprawled on the floor! I panicked and yelled everyone’s names! Everyone rushed to my room, switched on the lights and pulled my grandmother back up on the bed.

At 7am, the bump on her face turned into ugly deep purple bruise on her left eye and cheek. She looked like she was punched in the face by some evil-handbag-snatcher. I was annoyed when everyone kept thinking I had kicked my grandmother off the bed or I had been so selfish and shoved her to sleep on the little corner of the bed until she fell off!!

How annoying. Now all the relatives gonna think I had abused my grandmother when they see the bruise next Thursday when ibu chik and mummy comes back from prilgrimage.

Irritating! The husband calls me ‘grandma-basher’. how about husband-basher?!! (clenching my fists) Harrumphh!!

We have a new memo board in the house. A white-board, actually. It has turned into a board where we trade insults with each other (me and my brothers. Sometimes my father joins in.)

The past few days, it has been a picture of a fat pig and someone’s name arrowed to the drawing. The name of the pig kept changing. Whenever we see our name on the board, we would erase it and write down someone else’s.

My mother thinks we are mad and being silly. That’s because her name has not been written down yet! This morning I saw a drawing of an old lady (complete with hair bun) with a black eye! It was dead set funny!

Went for a Javanese massage at that new place in siglap with marliah. Its dead cheap. 35 bucks for an hour long of full body massage. They even massaged your ass to make it perky! Haha! Apparently I have too much air/wind (?!) inside me and I had to take this ginger wrap thingy. They pounded ginger and soaked me with the juice and wrapped me up like a popiah. Five minutes later, I was in ‘heat’!!

Panas oiiii!! It was crazy! U feel like u r being baked under the sun and left out too long! After massage therapy, met up with abg yem, zaza and abg sani for dinner. (finally! i hope everything is straightened out for good.) didnt stay long cuz i was all tired and wanted to finish setting the common test paper for my sec 3's and 4's. (its gonna be a killer paper. serious!)

Anyhow, today is a Friday and it’s a damn good day. Only one class and 2e2 is such a darling class to teach. Had FT period with my class and S came up to me and gave me a red packet for CNY! I did want to accept it but he was persistent and short-tempered (he’s autistic). So before he started to shout and bang his head against the table or something, I took it and shook his hand and said brightly, “Happy new year! Thank you!”

He seemed quite pleased and very happy. I am happy that he is happy.

i miss the husband heaps. He was in penang for a show during the CNY break. I get to see him next week tho.

Wish i could come up this weekend. tonnes of work still to be done. Double-fudged sigh.

ok, off to do more stuff. its really annoying. and i wish time could really pass me by. i'll miss my family and friends when i finally move to kl but i will definitely not miss any of the work and stress-related to it!